Vocabulary | Hubble Trouble, or Tesla? | Invention Intention - Reading Comprehension | Tone and Diction: True or False, Matching Diction with Tone | Dashes and Ellipses - Tell which punctuation mark is being used accurately |
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What is an outcry?
“A person or the public’s strong disapproval and anger toward something”
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What is Hubble?
“…on April 25, 1990, it had been almost cancelled at least twice and then delayed following the explosion of the shuttle Challenger in 1986.”
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What is a telescope, Hubble Telescope?
In 1946, Lyman Sptizer Jr had a dream that THIS would float in space above the atmosphere, and we’d be able to see all the stars in space.
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What is diction?
Word choice
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What is a dash?
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What is dismay?
“An emotion of anxiety, disapproval and disappointment”
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What is Hubble?
The agency’s administrator, Sean O’Keefe, cancelled what was to be the final mission on the ground that it was too risky.
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What is a mirror, misshapen mirror, or focus?
It was a mistake on THIS that led to blurry pictures from the Hubble, and to the dismay of NASA engineers.
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What is tone?
Author's opinion or attitude
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What is an ellipsis?
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What is controversy?
“A dispute from people with opposing views”
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What is Tesla?
“This rivalry was referred to as the “War of the Currents.”
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What is astronauts, “Hubble Repairman,” Hubble Astronauts?
Even though in 1999 four of six gyroscopes (that keep the telescope pointed) failed, THESE PEOPLE worked to successfully replace them.
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What is true?
c. True/False: The author maintains a wondrous tone in the following passage: “In perhaps its most iconic image, called “Pillars of Creation,” the Hubble recorded baby stars burning their way out of biblical-looking mountains of gas and dust in a stellar nursery known as the Eagle nebula.”
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What is an ellipsis?
Which punctuation mark is being used correctly? I wonder… is there life—in other solar systems?
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What is dismay?
It didn’t look like Hubble was going to be able to launch into space, to the public’s ___________.
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What is Hubble?
Behind the scenes… engineers were working on ways to save… by sending robots to work on it, perhaps.
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What is 44 years?
From dream in 1946 to launch in 1990, it took the Hubble Telescope THIS MANY YEARS before it was launched into space.
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What is an optimistic, hopeful, promising, proud tone?
The author's tone is...________???
“When Hubble was finally deployed, NASA’s spinmasters were instantly at the top of their game, hailing it as the greatest advance in astronomy since Galileo.” |
What is a dash?
Which punctuation mark is being used correctly?
Wow—that’s awesome… |
What is outcry?
Edison sparked a(n) _____________ from Tesla when he decided not to pay Nikola for the work he had done; therefore, Tesla left.
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What is Hubble?
“…that big mirror would up misshapen, polished four-millionths of an inch too flat…”
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What is a dash?
Which punctuation mark is being used correctly?
To win… you have to practice—that’s how you get better! |
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